The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-07-28
PERSONAL JOURNALLSn.

PERSONAL JOURNALLSM.
A late issue of the Luverne Herald,
which grayely announces that it does
not indulge in personal journalism"
contained the following paragraph:
Weazen-souled Fool Crank Miller,
OF the W0rthingtOn Advance, boasts
that his ''imbecility" lis of vigorous
and useful kind" and devotes a good
deal OF space to an imbecile boast of
what he has done. It is "vigOrOus"
enough to be sure, but it's funny that
no one but ''old Miller" discovers any
thing noteworthy or praisewOrthy
about anything ''old Miller" has ever
done.
Really, we do not think we have ever
seen a more ''imbecile" paragraph in
print than the above from "old Miller"
of the Luverne Herald.
And really, again, we would not no
tice any of these malignant personal
insults IL we did not know that this
fellow Miller is the mouthpiece Of set
Of slanderous ADVANCE haters who
charge US with their own vices and
weaknesses.
Somebody has said that the world is
divided into two classes, those who
pay and those who don't. 50 far as
we are concerned there are certainly
two classes, viz: those who see some
thing noteworthy in what we have
done and those who do not. The lat.
ter class see everything through the
jaundiced and diseased eyes of their
prejudices.
Now, as to this constant iteration
and reiteration of the ''imbecility''
epithet by the malignant editor of the
Herald: If we chose to go into that
sort of business we could make show
ing of ''imbecility" in his case that
would make the CALLED jade vince.
As to our own case, we are quite sat-
isfied land we know that all the decent
public are also satisfied) that the old
trip-hammer ADVANCE has not been
built up nor conducted for the last
twelve or fifteen years by an ''imbe-
cile." Indeed, we are assured by scores
of men whose opinion is worth having,
that if any paper or editor in the world
has shown character, backbone, pluck,
persistence and tenacity under great
discouragements, and under the most
brutal and blackguard assaults from
bad men and women, Ito say nothing
of a good deal of open and manly war
fare from enemies who have character)
If any paper and editor in the world
have shown all these qualities, the
ADVANCE and its editor have.
AS result, the open fight has failed
to dislOdge the ADVANCE and its edi-
tor. The question now is whether or
not the secret, biackguard, sla,der
method shall prevail. We say it shall
not any more than the other. AS we
have often proclaimed, we shall not he
dislodged until we deliberately choose
to lie.
The Herald. as before intimated, is
merely the ''ilnbecile" mouthpiece of
u band of ADvANCE-laters, who de-
light.in scandalizing the ADVANCE
and its editor; who magnify every
mole hill defect into a mountains; who
fan every vile hint against our clarac-
ter into confagration Of scandal, and
who can see nothing "noteworthy" or
''praiseworthy" in anything we have
done.
But now, (speaking to our own CON-
nunity and among ourselves here at
honey we are impressed to say this
much, viz:
That if the fine improvement of the
town which we have made on the cor
ner Of 10th-st. and 4th.av. if the news.
paper success We have made OF the AD-
not only financially but giving
it national reputation, and doing this
in spite of financial panics. grasshop-
pers and the most spiteful and deter
mined opposition that country editor
ever encountered; if the success of our
recently-published book, which has
been received hy the best minds of the
as a literary success in the
high and true sense; if Is years of
courageous, un6roken work
and struggle in Worthington and for
Worthington, during which newspaper
after newspaper and a dozen editors
have exhausted themselves in attempts
to dislodge and destroy us; if a family
of as fine children as there are in Wor-
thlngton at least and as neat and we'll
ordered home as there is in the coun-
ty,-if all these do not prove manhood,
energy, pluck, sense, character. at least
equal to that possessed by the men
around US, and far above those who
are trying to destroy Us; and if ones
fellowmen do not so accept these evi-
llences Of character-then we say there
is no use in any human effort nor any
reply to any slanderwhich human beasts
may put forth. If these are not to be &C. |
cepted by ones neighbors as creden-
tials of strength of character and ''sol- |
ID" standing, then the human being
that fellowman whom we are enjoined |
to love and labor for,) is an unjust, un.
merciful, cowardly brute, who deserves
only to be lashed with the scorpion.
whip of the tongue which is so often |
applied to every one of any
Let US not hurry away from this |
subject now that we are fairly started. !
We have heard that a few years ago